Knowledge of Effective Instructional Practices and Assessment of the Social Sciences

Question 1

What type of teaching practice includes the use of media to deliver text, audio, images, animation, and streaming video and includes technology applications and processes such as audio or video, satellite TV, CD-ROM, and computer based learning, as well as web-based learning?

Answer 1

Educational Technology

Question 2

What element of complex informational text include type and depth of vocabulary, levels of meaning, language conventions and clarity and knowledge demands?

Answer 2

Qualitative features

Question 3

What element of complex informational text include readability levels and measures of complexity?

Answer 3

Quantitative features

Question 4

What element of complex informational text focuses on reader variables (such as motivation, knowledge, and experiences) and task variables (such as purpose, and the complexity generated by the task assigned and questions posed)

Answer 4

Matching reader to text and task

Question 5

What type of teaching practice consists of using objects or activities that teacher can use to relate classroom content to real life?

Answer 5

Realia

Question 6

What type of teaching practice uses parents, members of the community and field trips to help their students learn about specific subjects?

Answer 6

Human Resources.

Question 7

Which teaching method uses small teams, each with students of varying abilities, uses a variety of learning activities to improve their understanding of a subject?

Answer 7

Cooperative learning

Question 8

Which teaching method uses straightforward, explicit teaching technques, usally to teach a specific skill. Teacher stands in front of classroom and presents the information.

Answer 8

Direct of Expository Instruction

Question 9

Which method of teaching uses a student-centered pedagogy in which students learn about a subject through the experience of solving an open-ended problem.

Answer 9

Problem-Based Learning